sterilize

There are other methods to sterilize male mosquitoes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2026

We press that mash, sterilize it by heating, bottle it and ship it out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Kluh’s district uses X-rays to sterilize males but there are other methods, such as using genetically modified insects or ones infected with bacteria.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 22, 2026

We cannot even think much about how to sterilize water before drinking it, because there is no cooking gas and no wood to light a fire.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2024

But while her brother had managed to sterilize his memories, she had only managed to make hers more scalding.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The lab sterilizes about 750,000 bugs per day, then chills the moths to put them to sleep and ships them off to California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2024

"It wipes out the bacteria -- sterilizes the culture with a single dose of light. And then when you look at what occurs with electron microscopy, you see the collapse of the chromosome."

From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2023

Circulating at 380 degrees, this steam not only heats the buildings, saving the cost of bulky on-site boilers, but also sterilizes the hospitals’ surgical instruments.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 14, 2019

This transformation sterilizes the plant, while attracting the sap-sucking insects that carry the bacteria to new hosts.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 9, 2014

See that she washes and sterilizes her hands thoroughly.

From 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands by H. Weston Taylor

The female flies only mate once, so sterilized males help suppress the population.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

That means the fish aren’t sterilized by cooking before they are packaged and sealed.

From Salon ● May 28, 2026

Another group of eight aging mice served as controls and received sterilized fecal material instead.

From Science Daily ● May 9, 2026

One theory was that a specific piece of equipment—a drill that Acer used on all the patients—wasn’t properly sterilized.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025

Nino Carlitos and the boys have left to pasture the cow, and the Doctorita has sterilized the tools and is now filling the patient’s cavity.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

The most effective strategy involved sterilizing about 22% of adult female koalas each year in areas with the highest population densities rather than applying the approach across the entire region.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026

She’s grateful that she had already secured a second job sterilizing medical equipment for 3,000 pesos a month at a nearby clinic.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

She chased away fishermen and was sued for sterilizing a neighbor’s goat.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025

Because when doctors and dentists practiced universal precautions—like wearing gloves and properly sterilizing their equipment—there was almost no risk of HIV transmission.

From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2025

The testing of chemicals for a sterilizing effect is much more difficult than the testing of chemical poisons.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson